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LAW 643

Medical-Legal Issues in Children's Health

Law School

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[ Academia ] Health Law: Health Care Reform

Why it is relevant for ...

[ Academia ] as a Related Elective for those interested in Health Policy : Students interested in health law policy should consider taking 1 or more courses addressing broader health policy issues. This course explores the medical and legal issues that affect children's health, with a focus on the effects of poverty.

General course
Description:

(Same as PEDS211)This service-learning seminar is open to law and medical students interested in exploring the link between poverty and children's health, and how the professions can work together to improve health outcomes for low-income children. The course consists of four components: (1) weekly class meetings in which we will discuss a series of medical-legal issues (e.g., asthma, immigration, health insurance, etc.) with guest lecturers from the medical and legal fields, selected for their expertise on each topic.; (2) intake interviews with patient families at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital or the Ravenswood Family Health Center in East Palo Alto, and an analysis of their medical-legal issues; (3) a group project focused on a local or state-level medical-legal policy issue (e.g., obesity prevention); and (4) a final paper that law and medical students will co-write in pairs. The course is linked to the Peninsula Family Advocacy Program. You can learn more about it at www.peninsulafap.org.

Course Style: An Experiential course is one in which students undertake tasks derived from or akin to those done by practicing lawyers.